Tag: birth

You don't have to put up with pregnancy pain here are 5 common pregnancy pain myths busted. Is pregnancy waddle inevitable? Will pregnancy wreck your body? and other pregnancy myths examined. Pregnancy will wreck your pelvic floor It isn’t pregnancy that plays havoc with your pelvic floor, but the weight of a baby on an … Continue reading 5 Myths of Pregnancy Pain

Optimal foetal positioning helping your baby find their way You might see on your hand held notes some odd abbreviations (actually a lot of them need some deciphering) but in this blog it is the baby’s position I am talking about. LOA (left occiput Anterior) , LOT (Left Occiput Transverse), ROA (Right Occiput Anterior), ROP … Continue reading Helping Your Baby Find Their Way

Babies are not pizzas they are born not delivered I saw this as a t-shirt once – I can’t find it now (so if anyone has a link to it please let me know) We have to really watch our language around birth – as birth workers we talk about this a lot., and the … Continue reading It’s a baby not a pizza

I was musing on the film Babies yesterday and thinking about the huge differences in the way of life between the Western culture and the ones much closer to a more natural lifestyle for a human being, Several scenes really stand out in my memory the first two are from the West – one is … Continue reading Overstimulation and Under Activity